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The tip cross-sectional areas of poisoned bone arrowheads from southern Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, October 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
86 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
20 Wikipedia pages
reddit
2 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

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mendeley
34 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The tip cross-sectional areas of poisoned bone arrowheads from southern Africa
Published in
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, October 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102477
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 34 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 15%
Student > Master 3 9%
Professor 2 6%
Other 1 3%
Other 5 15%
Unknown 11 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 9 26%
Social Sciences 5 15%
Environmental Science 2 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Computer Science 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 14 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 110. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 January 2026.
All research outputs
#485,430
of 34,332,845 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
#141
of 3,117 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,902
of 465,234 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
#4
of 80 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,332,845 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,117 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 465,234 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 80 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.